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Elizabethan playwright known for his "mighty lines," who was killed in a tavern brawl at age twenty-nine

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Christopher Marlowe was killed in a fight at a tavern on May 30th, 1593. Though stories vary in the account of what happened, it is believed that a fight was started over an unpaid bar tab which escalated. Marlowe was 29 years old.
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